episode_0488
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Director Jaden Aurelian created my identity on the spot.
“First, let me create your identity. You won’t attract anyone’s attention if you register as a frontier planet in the Aurea Galaxy. Since you are an Inquisitor, it would be nice to have a status that is not flashy, right?”
“It’s just right. Please register the name as Lee Min-ho.”
He looked at me strangely for trying to use the name Lee Min-ho as a fake identity, but then he nodded and did as he wished, perhaps because he thought the name itself was an alias.
“From now on, you are from the Novaren Planetary System of the Aurea Galaxy. Our home planet is a quiet place with a population of about 14 billion. Even if I introduce it, most people will quickly forget it. I’ve registered your name as you requested, so I’ll send you my ID when it comes out.”
‘A quiet planet with a population of 14 billion? It’s on a cosmic scale.’
“Thank you.”
After meeting the person in power and negotiating, things went smoothly.
Detailed background information on the disguised identity was delivered to the terminal. Although it was said to be a fake identity, it was a real identity that Jaden Aurelian had officially registered in the imperial database using his family’s influence and connections.
After completing the ID registration, Maria smiled brightly.
-Hehe, with this, the master becomes my bodyguard!
‘You are not yet a navigator. Jujong station and all… I learned a lot of strange things in real life. And becoming a bodyguard doesn’t mean our relationship will change, does it?’
-How you feel is important! Feel!
Sometimes, it was Maria who showed a more emotional side than me, a human being.
Still, since there are things they have done for me so far, there is nothing that I can’t do with these advantages and disadvantages.
I roughly dealt with her and moved on to the next location.
When Jaden Aurelian found out that I wasn’t here to take over, he just finished registering my identity and handed me over to his subordinate.
From his perspective, I agree that being associated with the Inquisitor for a long time is not good for your mental health. However, I felt like they were treating me like the plague, saying that I was an expert but wasting time on my subordinates.
‘Well, it’s not really wrong. To others, the Inquisitor might feel like a plague. And I think it’s more comfortable for me than having the director next to me all the time.’
So now I was on my way to get the navigator’s body for Maria. It was decided to receive the exploration vessel after first securing a navigator.
“A non-expert is the daily supervisor of the production of navigator clones. You always made it a habit to say that our work is no joke, but the director… ”
“Hmm… ”
A researcher grumbles as he guides me to the production facility. He doesn’t know that I am an Inquisitor. Because it’s confidential. In the first place, Jaden Aurelian also met me with a bodyguard made up entirely of machines in order to handle the family’s affairs secretly.
So there was no way he would have told his subordinates that the Inquisitor had visited. Even though this researcher’s position at the training center is that of deputy director.
‘He would probably faint from shock if he found out that the director had entrusted him with guiding the Inquisitor.’
“I heard there are people like this sometimes… Anyone who wants to see for themselves how their navigator is produced. Because it takes time to get navigator training, you probably won’t be able to receive it right away anyway… It would be convenient to just choose among the completed navigators after completing training.”
Muttering…
The deputy director muttered constantly as he opened the double or triple-blocked bulkhead for security reasons. It seemed like he thought of me as some kind of poor guy who came on a field trip in the name of being a director.
I wasn’t really interested in complaining about my disguised identity. After all, it was just a shell that was put on for a short time out of necessity. I was just gathering information bit by bit from those grumbling words.
‘It seems education takes time.’
-That’s usually the case. It takes time to form self-awareness and instill knowledge, because you have to properly use your brain to learn the skills of warp navigation. According to the settings, it takes about 16 years on average.
’16 years? ‘It’s too long.’
-Well, the average lifespan in this world is about 200 years, so it’s not that long. In reality, all education ends around the time a child is born and turns eight years old. But not me. Anyway, a clone is physically complete the moment it is produced. All you have to do is download the training content as materials and update it. There is no particular need for training.
‘Then I’m glad.’
I internally breathed a sigh of relief. I was worried that I would have to spend more than 10 years here.
However, there was no point in receiving a completed navigator.
I came here to give the navigator’s body to Maria, but for a navigator who has already become self-conscious, all I can do is for Maria to move from my body to someone else’s body.
In order to obtain the body herself, she must be involved in the production of the navigator from the beginning.
Basically, the navigator is Aurelian’s main product. Yes. It was literally a ‘product’. A product produced through cloning technology.
However, it was a little different from the clones that players consumed without thinking in Star Capital, the game version of Nova Empire.
General clones are widely used in limited fields, but unless you are Aurelian, the one person whose cloning is blocked by both law and technology is the navigator.
While we were thinking about that, we finally arrived at a space equipped with facilities to produce navigators.
“Here. This incubator contains all the elements needed to construct a sailor’s body. Here, the first step in production is to grow the body of the navigator as requested by Lee Min-ho.”
The deputy director said as he stopped in front of a glass tube filled with an unidentified liquid. The light green, transparent liquid bubbled and swirled on its own, then calmed down repeatedly. Occasionally, the sound of sparks could be heard in the incubator, as if electrical stimulation was being applied.
This space was filled with incubators of similar shapes, and some of them contained almost completed navigators. They were sailors of various appearances who looked no different from ordinary humans on the outside.
‘But that head has performance similar to that of a quantum computer… ‘
-If the nanobots I contained were the essence of New Kind’s technology, then the navigator’s brain and warp navigation technology could be said to be the essence of this world’s technology.
I acted like an immature person who didn’t know much about this field by asking curious questions.
“How long does it take for a navigator to grow?”
“One day is enough.”
“One day? Is that really enough?”
“Most sailors do.”
The deputy director responded kindly, unlike his grumpy manner in which he guided me. Being sincere in his field of expertise was the attitude of a great engineer.
Or maybe I was just afraid of falling into the eyes of Jaden Aurelian, who entrusted me to him.
“Not all specifications are the same, and in some cases, some customization is possible. For example, the Valkyrian family fights frequently, so there is a high chance that the navigator will die. That’s why we’re always adding options to increase durability. The Leviathan family often requests that they be able to do underwater activities for long periods of time.”
“Then Lazarian would prefer a navigator who can withstand high temperatures.”
“That’s right. In most cases, navigators make sure to stay in the safest environment possible. Without a navigator, you can only travel within the planetary system at best. But it’s about preparing for an emergency. Although additional special materials are used, the value is sufficient.”
“Are you often active inside planetary systems?”
“It is understood that those who cannot afford navigators usually operate within the planetary system. It is not a small number.”
Aurelian earns enormous income by dispatching navigators throughout the universe. Considering the importance of warp navigation, the price would not normally be high.
Of course, there are those who cannot afford to pay, and those who do so usually operate based in one planetary system.
The deputy director seemed proud of working at the navigator training center. I complimented him to get more information from him.
“They say that if the warp distance exceeds a certain level, the probability of failure increases. I heard from someone I know that it’s like playing Russian roulette with a spaceship… I think the navigator is really great.”
“Russian roulette? I don’t know who said the analogy, but it’s a very old analogy.”
-That guy… ?!
Maria, who told me the parable, got angry.
Of course, the deputy director, who did not know this, continued calmly.
“It wouldn’t be wrong if filling up all the bullets and praying for an unexploded bullet to come out can be seen as Russian roulette. Warp navigation cannot be accomplished with a quantum computer alone. Warp navigation is only possible when a navigator’s intuition is added to an equivalent level of calculation.”
‘It’s intuition… ‘
The title I earned at the Tower had that effect as well. The effect is that you gain sharp intuition. Apparently, there was a reason why a navigator was essential for warp navigation.
“I don’t know what the feeling is, but if you listen to the navigator’s words, he said that the moment you warp, you feel like you are one with the universe. The job of our training center is to make the technology that forms the basis of space civilization a reality.”
“That’s amazing.”
I obtained all the information I could immediately find from the deputy director.
So now we have to use it.
I took out a small metal ingot the size of my palm from my pocket and said,
“I also want to do some kind of customization. Could you please add this material to the Navigator crafting?”
The material I took out was starlight. A magical metal that gently reflects various colors like opal has appeared in another world.
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